Poll: General election voting intentions poll

Voting intentions in the General Election?

  • Alliance Party of Northern Ireland

    Votes: 2 0.3%

  • Conservative

    Votes: 254 41.6%

  • Democratic Unionist Party

    Votes: 1 0.2%

  • Green Party

    Votes: 40 6.5%

  • Labour

    Votes: 83 13.6%

  • Liberal Democrat

    Votes: 31 5.1%

  • Not voting/will spoil ballot

    Votes: 38 6.2%

  • Other party (not named)

    Votes: 4 0.7%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 1 0.2%

  • Respect Party

    Votes: 1 0.2%

  • Scottish National Party

    Votes: 25 4.1%

  • Social Democratic and Labour Party

    Votes: 1 0.2%

  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 1 0.2%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 129 21.1%
  • Total voters
    611
  • Poll closed .
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Pawnless Endgame said:
There are a lot of UKIP votes here. The only thing I like about them is that they've given the main parties a kick up the backsides.
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Exactly this.
The major parties NEED a kick up the backsides, as Farage said Cameron has done little to reduce the national debt.

The 'main stream' parties seem utterly deluded as to is what is really going on in the UK, never mind in working class homes.

UKIP will never run the country, but it's about time there was a party the represented the 'average guy'.
Labour is an utter failure in this area.
 
Zethor said:
You're trying to find other reasons for the growth in Australia and Korea but the fact is they implemented strong stimulus packages and kept growing.
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Australia tripled its national debt as a result of its packages.
They were in the strong position of no failing banks, nothing they needed to buy out, and had a rather low national debt at the time of collapse.

We simply cannot triple our national debt to create a stimulus package, buying our own banks doubled our national debt, and that was under labour.

How much stimulus and in what form would you actually suggest?
As we continued the quantitative easing, and lowered interest rates considerably as part of our 'stimulus' package, would you go with the Australian idea of giving money to every family to spend? Or what other form?
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
I forgot to mention the survey bit at the end.
How many of these academics who know all wrote to the labour government in 2007 and 2008 to warn them of impending economic doom?
How many predicted it accurately?
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Given that the main cause of the "economic doom" was an unpredictable event involving not just one company but an entire industry I'm not sure why you would expect them to? Yes with hindsight things could have been done differently, but I don't think it would have made a significant difference. Outside of the UK Gordon Brown is praised for his response and global leadership when the global economic crisis started. Heaven help us if Cameron and Osborne were in charge then.

On the other hand, austerity failing was entirely predictable, borne out by economic theory, past attempts and guess what? it's going to fail again if the Tories get in again.
 
Outcast said:
Pretty good article imho
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Only the insane far right could believe a Britain in the middle of slashing benefits, targeting the poorest and most vulnerable for cuts, whilst introducing tax cuts aimed at the richest (50% rate) and upper-to-middle income households (the rise in personal allowance) alongside re-privatising a profitable railway and introducing new levels of privatisation to the NHS and slashing council budgets to the bone and beyond placing care services and intervention services on life support is "lurching to the left".

The fact is that we've currently got the most right wing government in a hundred years in power; and the chief opposition is the most right wing "left wing party" in UK history.
 
Slam62 said:
Austerity isn't failing because its hardly been done.

More borrowing...
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No I sort of agree - the coalition gave up on austerity a couple of years into parliament because it wasn't working and the economy was stagnating. They then resorted to plan B, which was to actually borrow and invest in the economy which did work. A chain of events which any Keynesian economist could have predicted. Unfortunately the Conservatives still haven't been able to, or don't want to learn this lesson and are promising more of what doesn't work if they get elected.
 
Just for all you people who still think it: Labour not responsible for financial crash, former BoE governor Mervyn King

The former Bank of England governor Mervyn King has denied that the previous Labour government was responsible for the financial crash, saying there was a shared intellectual responsibility across the political parties and financial institutions for failing to foresee the problems.

Saying his view on the cause of the crisis had evolved, he said he doubted any single one country could have found their way through the crisis.

His remarks on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, which he was guest-editing, will please the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, as he prepares to battle a Conservative claim at the next election that Labour mismanagement of City regulation and excessive public spending were jointly responsible for the crash from which the UK economy is still recovering.

In the past King has hinted at select committee sessions that Labour allowed public spending to rise too fast but his latest remarks are one of his clearest exonerations of Labour for the financial crash.
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Mynight said:
The porn site age checks will work better than the blocking. Can't easily bypass those with a vpn or proxy.

However this could lead to an increase in fraud if you have to supply credit card info. Not that I even own one.

Besides there will always be sites that ignore such a ruling. It will work better but still be a complete farce.
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Thing is the majority of sites won't be hosted in the UK and will already have headers on their sites marking it as adult content which virtually every filter (assuming it's enabled) would already block. If a site's hosted outside of the UK there's no way they're going to adhere to UK law which limits their visitor numbers.

So this legislation is just back to what they suggested 2 years ago when they wanted ISP's to automatically block sensitive/adult content on all internet connections unless the person with the account 'opts out'.

If you connect to a VPN there's no way for UK based ISP's to filter that encrypted content anyway. So unless they also block a whole host of services that could be used to bypass the filter it wont make any difference.

The adult content save the children pitch is just their straw man argument for censoring all internet connections in the UK by default.
 
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silvagti said:
Thing is the majority of sites won't be hosted in the UK and will already have headers on their sites marking it as adult content which virtually every filter (assuming it's enabled) would already block.

So this legislation is just back to what they suggested 2 years ago when they wanted ISP's to automatically block sensitive/adult content on all internet connections unless the person with the account 'opts out'.

If you connect to a VPN there's no way for UK based ISP's to filter that encrypted content anyway. So unless they also block a whole host of services that could be used to bypass the filter it wont make any difference.

The adult content save the children pitch is just their straw man argument for censoring all internet connections in the UK by default.
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Maybe I misread the plans but I thought it was forcing the porn sites to impliment age verification themselves rather than the ISPs doing it. As such a VPN would only work if they implimented the age verification on a UK location basis.

The daily fail is claiming responsibility for the plans ironic the harsher blocking could do in parts of their site.
 
Mynight said:
Maybe I misread the plans but I thought it was forcing the porn sites to impliment age verification themselves rather than the ISPs doing it. As such a VPN would only work if they implimented the age verification on a UK location basis.

The daily fail is claiming responsibility for the plans ironic the harsher blocking could do in parts of their site.
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It does say age verification checks but it also mentions that sites which don't do this will be put on to a list which will be blocked by your ISP.

"The proposed system would be overseen by an independent regulator with the power to force internet service providers to block sites which failed to include effective age verification."

My concern is where will they draw the line when it comes to blocking adult sites? If sites/services can be used to get around the filter (VPN services/etc) they'll presumably need to block them as well? Where does it end once a government starts censoring the internet?
 
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delta0 said:
Ed apologised live on tv. Labour caused it no matter how it is dressed up, even Ed knows this.
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No, he apologised for Labour not being tougher in regulating the UK finance sector when the crash happened. Had the Conservatives been in power at the time odds are there'd have been even less regulation resulting in a larger bailout/debt than Labour left behind.
 
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Miliband and Balls knew about the looming crash but let it happen anyway. Just desperate to hold onto to power no matter what. Don't need people like that remotely close to power.
 
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